Waste
Cities globally, and at all levels of development, face both a resource and waste crisis due to rapid urbanization. The rate of waste generation will more than double over the next twenty years in lower income countries alone. The conventional approach on waste collection and unregulated disposal without the resource recovery are rarely sustainable, and have increasingly negatively assessed against economic, environmental and climate indicators. An estimated of 80% of wastewater produced is discharged untreated and many still defecate openly. These practices have serious health, safety, and environmental consequences especially affecting the urban poor.
The Waste CoP aims to provide thought leadership and knowledge exchange in sustainable waste management within GGGI and beyond. The core value of GGGIs work in waste to date has been around providing comprehensive solutions to municipal solid and liquid waste management based on the circular economy concept. GGGI promotes maximizing waste-to-resource opportunities in the waste value chain while contributing to climate mitigation and creating green jobs. For solid waste, GGGI develops policy and mobilizes green investment for waste-to-energy and resource recovery facilities in Asia, Africa and Latin America including Cambodia, Colombia, Lao PDR, India, Myanmar, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam. For liquid waste, GGGI designs and implements solutions to increase access to wastewater and fecal sludge treatment services in developing countries with a focus on valorization of wastewater. GGGI provides advisory services to policy, planning and bankable business models for Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System (DEWATS) and Fecal Sludge Management (FSM). The countries we work in include Cambodia, India, Lao PDR, Nepal, Senegal, and Rwanda.
Projects
UG17
Thematic Areas
Countries
UG17 Strengthening Solid Waste and Feacal Sludge Management Capacity of the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (Phase 1)
Start Date | Q1 13th September 2021 |
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Funding Source | |
Actual Budget (USD) | 2,350,000 |
Status | Active |
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RW31
Thematic Areas
Countries
RW31-Smart and Electric Public Transport Services for Low-Carbon City Development in Rwand
Start Date | Q3 2021 |
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Funding Source | |
Actual Budget (USD) | 150,000 |
Status | Active |
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RW21
Thematic Areas
Countries
RW21-E – Waste to Resources: Improving Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and Hazardous Waste Management in Rwanda
Start Date | Q1 |
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Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
Status | Active |
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UG15
Thematic Areas
Countries
UG15 Greening Uganda’s Urbanization and Industrialization
Start Date | Q1 July 2020 |
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Funding Source | |
Actual Budget (USD) | 5,532,179 |
Status | Active |
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KH22
Thematic Areas
Countries
KH22 Generating Revenue for Financially Sustainable Sanitation and Waste Management in Kep
Start Date | Q4 20201001 |
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Funding Source | |
Actual Budget (USD) | 155,887 |
Status | Active |
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News
News • June 28, 2022
South-South Knowledge Exchange Program on Sustainable Solid Waste Management between Lao PDR and Pakistan
June 10 – 15. Islamabad, Pakistan – A Lao delegation with 4 GGGI Lao PDR staff visited Islamabad and Mardan, Pakistan for South-South Knowledge Exchange (SSKE) Program between Lao PDR and Pakistan, aiming to enhance solid waste management in Lao PDR by learning from the best practices of Pakistan. The delegation consisted of the government […]
News • June 27, 2022
Uganda Women in Climate Change 2022 Declaration
Preamble Despite women being disproportionately affected by climate change, they play a crucial role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Climate change frequently affects women and men differently (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007). The primary reason for these differences is the varying levels of access to resources knowledge, skills, and finance that shape how […]
News • June 16, 2022
Government of Rwanda and GGGI Sign and endorse the new 2021-2025 Rwanda Country Planning Framework (CPF)
On 13 May, Kigali , Rwanda the Minister of State , Ministry of Infrastructure Eng Patricie Uwase and the GGGI Rwanda Country Representative Okechukwu Daniel Ogbonnaya have officially endorsed & signed the new five year 2021-2025 Rwanda Country Planning Framework (CPF). The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) would like to thank all the stakeholders and […]
News • June 8, 2022
GGGI District Technical Assistants (DTA’s) lead the Awareness raising workshop for the environmental protection committee’s members
Rwanda Environment Managament Authority in collaboration with GGGI Rwanda through the implementation of the the GCF Readiness & Preparatory Support Project to capacitate Rwanda’s Subnational Level Actors in Green Growth & Climate Change Resilience organized training workshops for Environmental Committees members in secondary cities. The training workshop was for Environmental Committees members from Nyagatare District […]
News • June 8, 2022
Workshop report on effective municipal solid waste management in City of Kigali
30-31 May 2022, Kigali, Rwanda the Global Green Growth Institute conducted a two days’ workshop at M Hotel on effective municipal solid waste management services in the City of Kigali from 30 to 31 May 2022. The workshop was attended private companies with business spanning across value chain of municipal waste management in the City […]
News • June 7, 2022
Draft Gulu Physical Development Plan Handover
Gulu City, June 6, 2022 Gulu City has received the final draft of the Physical Development Plan. The plan has been developed under the greening Uganda’s urbanization and industrialization project, funded by the European union. The plan is a spatial expression of the social and economic environment or other policy, at National, regional, district, city […]
News • May 3, 2022
Training Workshop on Sustainable Waste Management for Building Managers in Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda from 20-21st April , 2022 the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in partnership with COPED, a leading waste management company operating in Rwanda since 1999, conducted a two days’ workshop on Sustainable Waste Management and greening concept for building managers of hotels, commercial buildings and public office buildings. This workshop part of the […]
News • May 3, 2022
Greening the New Bugesera Airport Validation Meeting
29 March 2022, Kigali, Rwanda: The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in collaboration with Aviation, Travel and Logistics (ATL) Holding Ltd, an entity affiliated to the Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) hosted a virtual validation meeting on the Greening of the new international airport in Bugesera. Participants that joined the virtual meeting were representatives from […]
News • May 3, 2022
Rwanda Plastic Waste Web Portal Launch
30th March, Kigali Rwanda the Global Green Growth Institute in collaboration with Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and Save The Environment Initiative (SEI) officially launched the Plastic Waste Web portal , the hybrid event took place at the newly renovated Norrsken House. The event was attended by different […]
News • April 6, 2022
GGGI held the ordinary session of the senegal cooperation steering committee
The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development convened the ordinary session of the steering committee of the GGGI country cooperation programme in Senegal in the presence of the statutory party members. As usual at the beginning of each year, the steering committee meets to examine the evolution of the implementation of the programme in 2021, […]
News • March 24, 2022
Grand opening of Integrated Resource Recovery Center (IRRC) and handover ceremony of electric waste collection trucks held in Vientiane Capital
March 23, 2022. Vientiane, Lao PDR. The grand opening of the Integrated Resource Recovery Center (IRRC), the first city government -led facility to process organic waste from municipal waste, and handover ceremony of electric waste collection trucks were held on 23 March 2022, marking a great milestone for waste-to resource initiatives in the capital city […]
News • March 24, 2022
GGGI Promoting a Self-Help Model for Cleaning Up Cities in Uganda.
On June 5, 2021, the Global Green Growth Institute in collaboration with the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and key environmental activists/ Civil Society Organizations conducted a one-day outreach at the Ggaba beach market and landing site, a suburb in Kampala Central Division to commemorate the World Environment Day 2021. The purpose of the outreach […]
News • March 24, 2022
Strengthening Solid Waste and Feacal Sludge Management Capacity of the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area Project – Phase 1
On 13th September 2021 KOICA and GGGI signed the project grant agreement to commence the implementation of the ‘Strengthening Solid Waste and Feacal Sludge Management Capacity of the Greater Kampala Metropolitan’ project phase 1. This phase starting from 2021 to 2023, will focus on development of strategies, implementation plans and technical designs for proposed interventions […]
News • March 21, 2022
Representatives of Ministries of Republic of Mozambique tour Rwanda on a 5 day Knowledge Exchange Visit
13-18 March 2022, Kigali , Rwanda. The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a delivery partner of the GCF readiness project “Implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to Promote Low-Carbon Growth in Mozambique” that is being implemented for the Government of Mozambique (GoM). The project, implemented, together with the Ministry of Land and Environment through […]
News • March 21, 2022
GGGI organizes Waste to Resource Project Study Tour Training in Nairobi for Rwanda Officials
7-11 March 2022, Nairobi , Kenya .The Government of Rwanda vision is to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy, to reach upper middle-income status by 2035 and to become a high-income country by 2050. To align with such aspirations, there is an urgent need to move to more sustainable Solid Waste Management (SMW) which […]
News • March 14, 2022
Senegal Country Representative met the WEEE management partners
In continuation of the programmatic portfolio working visits, Assana Alio, Country representative to Senegal accompanied by the project coordinator Alé Badara Sy and the technical referent of the component Modou Fall met with all the implementing partners for the waste electrical and electronic equipment management component. A component of the project on liquid and solid […]
News • March 1, 2022
Booklet – Capacity building of women in green entrepreneurship
February 28, 2022 – GGGI Burkina Faso published a collection of insights by women who received green entrepreneur training as part of the “Promotion of Solar Irrigation Pumping system and Solar Mini-grids” project. GGGI implemented this project in Burkina Faso with the financial support of Denmark. The project has recognized the role that women play […]
News • February 21, 2022
GGGI hosts 2nd Technical Working Group on Waste to Resource Project
15 Feb 2022, Kigali Rwanda the Global Green Growth Institute hosted the second technical working group on Waste to Resource Project. With the aim to update the members on the progress of implementation of the previous Technical Working Group’s recommendations, to review the capacity needs assessment for solid waste management preliminary study and review the […]
News • January 11, 2022
Accelerating investment in nature for the green recovery in Senegal strategic workshop held
The strategic orientation workshop was held on December 16, 2021 for the project “Accelerating investment in nature for the green recovery in Senegal through the structuring of the green PES” organized in partnership with the Operational Office for the monitoring of the PES, the MAVA Foundation and the European Union. The objective was to share […]
News • January 11, 2022
Round-up: Morocco Monitoring committee event for the GCF Readiness Program” Resilient Recovery Rapid Readiness Support in the Kingdom of Morocco”
Rabat, Morocco December 14th 2021 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in close collaboration with the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development and key stakeholders organized the first monitoring committee meeting event for the inception of the GCF Readiness Program” Resilient Recovery Rapid Readiness Support in the Kingdom of Morocco”. The opening of […]
Reports
GGGI Staff
Muhammad Ali Shaikh
Project Manager: Solid Waste and Fecal Sludge Management Africa (and Europe); Waste CoP Co-Lead